Chapter Seventy-Four: Can the Thorn Be Destroyed?

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment. Shaking his head, he said, "I don't dare to think about it. ”

How could Zhu Qizhen not want to destroy the thorns

But the facts told Zhu Qizhen that this was probably an impossible task. At least in the First World War, Mobei, such an idea does not exist in Zhu Qizhen's opinion.

Don't look at anything else.

Just look at how much effort Emperor Taizong put in, and the Northern Expedition again and again, did Mongolia extinct? Has the tile spur been extinguished?

As an emperor, Zhu Qizhen has always wanted to embarrass the people below.

Assigning some impossible tasks is likely to cost you the wrong thing.

Meng Ying said: "Your Majesty is wise, since Your Majesty does not have this thought, then this Northern Expedition is to weaken the thorns and split Mongolia." And in this way, it is better to attack all the way, than to attack in several ways. ”

"Even if the tile spur has the heart to fight, on the grassland, with the ability of three generals, it is impossible to dishonor the mission."

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment.

He also slowly figured out the main points of Meng Ying's strategy.

Meng Ying did not have the heart to destroy the thorns in a battle.

What Meng Ying has to do is one thing, that is, to learn from Emperor Taizong, support another force on the grassland, divide the grassland into two, and fight with each other.

The court can rest easy.

Meng Ying is old, and he also understands, and he also understands that it is best for him not to stay in the cabinet for too long, after all, the people below are peeping into this position.

Meng Ying is not Zhang Fu after all.

Zhang Fu is in the cabinet, that is what everyone expects, and no one will say a word at all.

But Meng Ying is much worse than Zhang Fu.

So, he's ready to abdicate and make way for Hyun.

After this battle. Among Shi Heng, Yang Hong, and Guo Deng, it is estimated that one of them will enter the cabinet, and he will just retire to retire.

Therefore, this battle was also the last battle when he presided over the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Naturally, you have to think a little more.

Zhu Qizhen groaned and said: "In the opinion of the national public, how many troops are needed? ”

Meng Ying said: "The cavalry of each department of the tile spur is only about 100,000, if each army can protect itself when it encounters the main force of the tile spur, it is best to have more than 50,000 cavalry, as for the recruitment of the Mongolian departments, it is naturally more and better." ”

Zhu Qizhen calculated in his heart that there were 50,000 cavalry on each road, 150,000 cavalry on the third road, and there were only 85,000 cavalry in Beijing, and a total of 65,000 people had to be recruited from Xuanfu, Datong, Liaodong, and Haixi.

Almost the nine-sided cavalry was empty.

As for the garrisons stationed in Zhaozhou, Kaiping, Dongsheng, Daning, Songyin, etc., it is equivalent to moving the four towns of Xuanfu, Datong, Liaodong, and Haixi to the north as a whole.

This made Zhu Qizhen have a sense of crisis.

In the eyes of others, it was the Ming army that marched north.

But

From Zhu Qizhen's point of view, it was the time when the Ming army showed its flaws.

Zhu Qizhen divided the Ming army into three levels, the first level was the Beijing soldiers, and Zhu Qizhen created an elite warrior who dared to fight with six million taels of silver every year.

He was the most daring and able to fight in the Ming army.

Its main body is the son of a good family in Hebei, and the border army dares to fight. Zhu Qizhen raised him. Its combat effectiveness is naturally good, and there are a large number of qualified lower-level officers who have been trained.

The second is the border army.

If the Beijing Army is the representative of Zhu Qizhen's new military system, then the Army of the Nine Sides is the best afterglow of the guard system.

These guards were stationed on the border and were never in conflict with the Mongols.

Even from the first year of Hongxi to the early period of orthodoxy, in this period of time known as Taiping, there were still many large and small battles below the hundred horses.

Under such an environment, a large number of soldiers who dare to fight and can fight have naturally been cultivated.

However, because of the collapse of the health system.

The military discipline of these soldiers is extremely worrying, and there are such and such small problems. But the combat effectiveness is still guaranteed.

As for the rest of the guards, there is no need to say more. It's not much better than Minfu.

Before, the Ming army shrank the battle line on the nine sides, which seemed to be very unproductive, but in reality, this kind of treatment saved a lot of troops, and the nine-sided defense did not dare to say that it was an iron wall, but there were no loopholes to drill.

But now, do it. It seems to be a big move north, but it reveals a lot of gaps. If the tile spur can pass all the way to victory, the plan can be fought all the way to Juyong Pass, or Bauhinia Pass.

This is still, after 14 years of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen repaired the checkpoints near the capital, otherwise he would have fought all the way to the city of Beijing. In other words, there was no possibility of a collapse before, but now it is.

However, Zhu Qizhen's worries were quickly dispelled by himself.

Without him, although he is a generation of famous generals, it is impossible to complete the offensive of defeating famous generals with tens of thousands of people, and then counterattack Beijing, in Zhu Qizhen's view.

If he had been able to do this first, he would have been as famous in history as Temujin.

But it may not be possible to do it at first.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but be on guard, he intended to recruit some more soldiers, and speed up the metabolism of the city defense army to complete Zhu Qizhen's plan, that is, 400,000 soldiers of the Eighth Army in Beijing.

Enough to suppress the world.

But the annual cost is estimated to be more than 10 million.

Nearly half of the annual budget will be invested in military spending.

A lot of problems, in the final analysis, are about money. But how to solve the problem of money is a big problem.

Zhu Qizhen has a headache for this problem for I don't know how much time, and it is estimated that he will have a headache in the future, and said: "I know, you go down to prepare, this time to recover Kaiping, Dongsheng, let Guo Deng go." ”

Compared with Shi Heng, Yang Hong, and Guo Deng, Guo Deng's ability may not be worse, but

The times were a little bad, and I didn't make any great contributions.

Now that there is a time for meritorious service, Zhu Qizhen naturally has to balance one and two.

As for Meng Ying's grand plan of three-way spurs, Zhu Qizhen can only listen to it for the time being, if the money is enough, Zhu Qizhen is also willing to do it, if the money is not enough, this battle will drag on for a while.

A year or two.

Meng Ying said: "The minister understands. Then go and prepare. ”

Zhu Qizhen sent Meng Ying away and took a deep breath. The problem of money, he pressed for the time being, but the problem of horses, and now he can solve part of it.

Then there is Mo Nan If all Mongolia is submissive, I dare not say more, and it is not a problem to supply tens of thousands of horses to the army.

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said, "Chuan Shaofu Duanmurui, and Jinyi Wei Zhen Fu Heyong." ”

Fan Hong immediately agreed and immediately went to pass it.

The yamen of Shaofu is in the middle of the palace. So Duanmuri arrived immediately.

Zhu Qizhen asked Duanmurui and said, "How is the silage thing being implemented?" ”

Duanmurui didn't have any creativity, but Xiao Gui Cao Sui did a good job, and he implemented Liu Dingzhi's regulations very well. And Liu Dingzhi has been in the position of Shaofu for several years.

Shaofu has been turned into a large workshop group.

Therefore, Duanmurui has a lot of affairs, related to the Zunhua Iron Factory, the firearms factory south of Jingshi, the southern weaving factory, the porcelain factory, the gold and silver mines in various places, and so on.

This is still a small workshop that has been sold.

Otherwise, Duanmuri manages more.

As for the promotion of silage, this matter is a very small part of Duanmuri's various work. Being said by Zhu Qizhen, Duanmurui didn't react for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, he said: "Your Majesty, the sky is sage, the insight is eternal, the method of silage, used everywhere, the following is said to be excellent, I don't know how much forage is saved, even in winter, it can ensure that the horses do not lose fat." It's the best way to do it. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Since it is easy to use, I can rest assured, I have an errand for you to do." ”

Duanmurui said, "Please give your Majesty's orders." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Daning is new, my grace is not extensive, I want you to go to Daning to promote the silage method." In the future, if you do a good job, I will naturally reward you for your merits, and I will give you a knighthood. ”

Duanmurui's heart jumped, and all kinds of tastes came to his heart for a while. He was naturally unwilling to give up the position of Shaofu, which was so powerful that it could compete with one of the six departments.

Duanmurui is in Shaofu, not a Shangshu, but comparable to a Shangshu.

But what kind of silage law did you go to Daning, what the hell?

It's almost a distribution.

But Duanmurui also knew that although he was powerful, he was not born on the right path of the imperial examination, and Liu Dingzhi was able to leap into the university scholar in the position of Shaofu. That's because Liu Dingzhi was born as a champion, and unless Duanmurui is in Shaofu all his life, he can only be demoted if he is transferred out.